Create Jekyll posts with their YAML matter quickly from the command line.

new-post.sh

jekyll-post () {
  #!/bin/bash
  
  echo "Title of post:"
  read title
  
  echo "Description of post:"
  read description
  
  echo "Tag post:"
  read tags
  
  dateStr=$(date +%Y'-'%m'-'%d'-')                          # Current date
  blogFolder=~/boondoggles/thoughts/_posts                  # _posts folder of Jekyll blog
  YAML=$'---
layout: post
title: '$title'
description: '$description'
tags: ['$tags']
---'                                                      # YAML matter at top of blog post
  lowercase=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
  formattedTitle=${lowercase// /-}
  echo $formattedTitle
  newFile=$dateStr$formattedTitle'.md'
  
  echo "$YAML" > $blogFolder/$newFile                       # Create post in correct folder
  
  vim $blogFolder/$newFile
}